Unitech bursar appears before court on fraud charge
Education News PNG ANOTHER SUSPENDED STAFF member at the PNG University of Technology (Unitech) has appeared before the Lae committal court on allegation of misappropriation and conspiracy to defraud...
View ArticlePredatory elite the problem, Namorong tells Canberra
PAPUA NEW GUINEA’s failure to capitalise on its natural resource boom has been described by award winning blogger Martyn Namorong as the curse of the rent seekers. Namorong highlighted this today when...
View ArticleWhy not a village-based timber export business
JOHN FOWKE THIS PIECE OUTLINES BRIEFLY a concept which I believe Papua New Guinea villagers would discuss avidly and which might produce a worthwhile process of evolution in the timber industry. George...
View ArticleIn the Simbu, conquering the curse of osteomyelitis
FRANCIS NII | Supported by the South Pacific Strategic Solutions Writing Fellowship A NEW LEASE OF HEALTHY and vibrant life after many years of living in pain and confinement is every patient’s dream....
View ArticleHey Mr Somare, have we got a deal for you!
PHIL FITZPATRICK WHETHER PAPUA NEW GUINEA was ready to govern itself in 1975 is a moot point really. It had been governing itself for thousands of years already. The question was rather whether it was...
View ArticlePNG Muslims: a new frontier for Islam in Melanesia
The Vatican Today | Agenzia Fides PAPUA NEW GUINEA is the new frontier for the expansion of Islam in Melanesia. Islam arrived in Papua New Guinea about 35 years ago, when a mosque near Kimbe in West...
View ArticleNorm Liddle, engaging, likeable, occasionally stoned
DAVID WALL IN THE COURSE OF OUR LIVES we meet people who are readily forgettable but a select few we never forget. In this category I put Norm Liddle. Norm was that type of Australian, particularly...
View ArticleRio Tinto faces war crimes allegations over Bougainville
KRISTIAN LASSLETT | Green Left Website BRITISH-AUSTRALIAN MINING GIANT Rio Tinto is seriously contemplating reopening its Bougainville copper and gold mine, Reuters reported on 7 February. The...
View ArticleLiterature: The loneliness of the long-distance writer
PHIL FITZPATRICK WHEN THE CROCODILE PRIZE kicked off in 2011 it was the intention of the organisers to involve as many Papua New Guinea businesses as possible in the process, including the printing and...
View ArticleBible fundamentalists & pubs engulf the suburbs
KELA KAPKORA SIL BOLKIN | Supported by the Phil Fitzpatrick Writing Fellowship ONE WONDERS WHETHER they have inhaled heroin or cocaine to be so high with energy. Your ears are assaulted on every street...
View ArticleOnline media important to PNG says corruption fighter
RADIO AUSTRALIA THE WINNER OF A MEDIA anti-corruption award says online media has the potential to inform and mobilise the people of Papua New Guinea. Blogger Martyn Namorong won the overall prize at...
View ArticleO’Neill ‘silent’ over Solwara deep sea mining risks
Pacific Media Centre | Deep Sea Mining Campaign AN ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCACY group has accused prime minister PNG prime minister Peter O’Neill of “falling silent” on the controversial Solwara 1 deep sea...
View ArticleThe USA is losing to China in Asia-Pacific influence
DAVID GONOL THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION is a very strategic area in this 21st century as the world’s balance of economic and political power shifts. Many nations in the region are taking the lead as the...
View ArticleA pendulum plays a well-known rhythm
MICHAEL DOM Movements between a left and a right swing A pendulum plays a well-known rhythm Moments between the ticking and tocking A lonely figure bracing in the storm An empty park-bench on a quiet...
View ArticleMove over corrupters, here come the citizens!
MORIOKA | Bertelsmann Stiftung | Future Challenges IN A COUNTRY LIKE Papua New Guinea, you don’t expect much from the government. If you do, you will be disappointed. You see, there is a problem when...
View ArticleValedictory interview: Ian Kemish bids PNG goodbye
RADIO AUSTRALIA | ABC AUSTRALIA'S HIGH COMMISSIONER to Papua New Guinea Ian Kemish departed PNG today after a drama-filled three-year stint. The pidgin-speaking diplomat's posting coincided with some...
View ArticlePNG-made: The development of Melanesian law
DAVID GONOL THE IDEA OF THE UNDERLYING LAW is a constitutional idea. The Papua New Guinea Constitution and the Underlying Law Act provide for the development of underlying law or indigenous...
View ArticleIs anyone listening? This research can really help PNG
KEITH JACKSON MICHAEL DOM IS NOT JUST an award winning writer. In fact one of Papua New Guinea’s leading poets’ day job is as a research scientist. At present doing postgraduate studies at the...
View ArticleSchool power: This is the century of educated brains
LEONARD FONG ROKA | Supported by the Jeff Febi Writing Fellowship LAST DECEMBER I was invited to be a guest speaker at the end-of-year ceremonies at two primary schools, Darenai and Oune, here in the...
View ArticleKauona criticised by Europe-based BCL shareholders
Radio New Zealand International A GROUP OF SHAREHOLDERS in Bougainville Copper Ltd has issued a scathing critique of a former Bougainville militant leader, Sam Kauona, who this week described the...
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